gec-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Global Environmental Change (GEC) manuscript against the relevant literatures. GEC is interdisciplinary, so the paper must engage more than one body of work — environmental social science, governance, the relevant domain literature — and speak across them. Shapes the framing and citations; it does not write the literature review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill gec-literature-positioning --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Literature Positioning (gec-literature-positioning) GEC is **interdisciplinary**. A submission that engages only one literature (only climate science, or only one governance debate) reads as off-fit. This skill helps you locate the paper at the **intersection of the literatures GEC readers expect** and define the gap your contribution fills. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the introduction and the "gap" the paper fills - A reviewer said the framing "misses a key literature" or is "too disciplinary" - Reconciling a domain literature (e.g., land-use science) with a social-science literature (e.g., governance) - Choosing which debates to foreground for a broad, policy-relevant audience ## How GEC papers position themselves 1. **Engage at least two literatures.** Typically a **domain literature** (climate, water, land, food, oceans, biodiversity) plus a **human-dimensions literature** (vulnerability, governance, behavior, transitions, political ecology, environmental economics). Show how they meet on your question. 2. **State the gap as a contribution, not a hole.** "X is understudied" is weak; "the dominant framing of X cannot explain Y, and here is a framework / test that
- When to trigger
- How GEC papers position themselves
- Cross-literature framing
- Anti-patterns
- Positioning objections GEC editors and referees raise
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Calibration anchors (hedged)
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the gec-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Global Environmental Change (GEC) manuscript against the relevant literatures. GEC is interdisciplinary, so the paper must engage more than one body of work — environmental social science, governance, the relevant domain literature — and speak across them. Shapes the framing and citations; it does not write the literature review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill gec-literature-positioning --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.